Animals

Animals

Pothole repair, insect-style

Army ants forced to travel on a narrow wooden strip throw themselves into holes and allow fellow travelers to race over them.

Animals

Life on the Down Low

The first scientific survey of organisms in the deep waters off Antarctica has discovered lots of life.

Animals

Little beetle, big horns

Why do dung beetles have horns? Biologists sniff out some answers.

Animals

Big squid

Florida fishermen recently hauled in a squid that's like no other ever found in the Atlantic Ocean.

Animals

Cacophony acoustics

How do frogs hear each other in a noisy pond? Just the way we would, as it turns out.

Animals

Helping the cause of macaws

Scientists' discoveries about macaws may help these magnificent birds survive.

Animals

Revenge of the cowbirds

Some cowbirds seem to force other birds to raise their chicks.

Animals

A meal plan for birds

Scrub jays do a bird version of planning ahead for their next meal.

Animals

Odor-chasing penguins

Penguins may use their sense of smell to locate food in the ocean.

Animals

Chicken eggs as drug factories

Researchers have created chickens that produce useful drugs in their eggs.

Animals

G-Tunes with a Message

Apes known as gibbons can rearrange the notes of their songs to communicate with one another.

Animals

The Littlest Lemurs

Studies of mouse lemurs may tell us something about our own origins.